Ultimate way for ClickBank Vendors to handle removal of the hoplink

[Ned Storm]

This code helps your affiliates to avoid showing their hop link on your sales page and also should reduce the amount of people removing or altering the referring affiliates id.

PHP Code:

/* Script to remove ClickBank hoplink from URL and put it in a cookie
/* Author: Ned Storm
/* Version: 1
/* 6th October 2009
/* http://aweconsulting.co.uk
/*
/* this script should be included in the head section of a web page as follows:
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="hotlink.js"></script>
/*
/* The hop value is stored in qsVals.hop
/*
/* Code to add to a web form:
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
document.write('<input type="hidden" name="hop" value="' + qsVals.hop + '"/>');
</script>
/*
/* Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
/* http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/
*/

// Change this value to your hoplink
var defaultHop = "YOURHOP";

var qsVals = new Array();
var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
var parms = query.split('&');
for (var i=0; i<parms.length; i++) {
    var pos = parms[i].indexOf('=');
    if (pos > 0) {
        var key = parms[i].substring(0,pos);
        var val = parms[i].substring(pos+1);
        qsVals[key] = val;
    }
}

// check for hop value
if (qsVals.hop != null) {
    // Set cookie to remember the hop value
    if (document.cookie.search(/hop=/) < 0) { // No cookie yet
        var theDate = new Date();
        var oneYearLater = new Date( theDate.getTime() + 31536000000 );
        var expiryDate = oneYearLater.toGMTString();
        document.cookie = 'hop=' + qsVals.hop + ';expires='+ expiryDate;
    }
    
    // If the cookie was successfully set, redirect the page to remove the hoplink from the url
    var url = "" + window.location;
    if (document.cookie.search(/hop=/) >= 0) top.location.href = url.split("?")[0];

} else qsVals.hop = defaultHop;

// Look for cookie
if (document.cookie.search(/hop=/) >= 0) {
    var cookies = "" + document.cookie;
    var hop = cookies.match(/hop=([a-z0-9]+);?/i);
    if (hop != null) qsVals.hop = hop[1];
    
}